John Cage/Pico Iyer/Yang Wanli

4’33” BC (Before Cage)

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Poem by Wang Yangli
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Shinto Silent Concerts Before Cage

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4'33 BC (Before Cage) MWGonnerman

James Klosty, John Cage at the Piano at Westbeth, New York City, 1972, with a poem by Roger Padgett, in John Cage Was (Wesleyan University Press, 2014), 108–09.

For a discussion of John Cage and Gary Snyder’s affinities, see Peter Jaeger, John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics (Bloomsbury, 2013), 60–64; 150–51.

Mark Gonnerman